Where does Bridgewest Finance LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bridgewest Finance LLC ranks #24,026 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Bridgewest Finance LLC hold?

Bridgewest Finance LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Bridgewest Finance LLC's Innovation Score?

Bridgewest Finance LLC has an Innovation Score of 29.8 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bridgewest Finance LLC focus on?

Bridgewest Finance LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 10 patents, ranking #1,346 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bridgewest Finance LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bridgewest Finance LLC's recent grant velocity is -90% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Bridgewest Finance LLC's patents?

Bridgewest Finance LLC's patents average 14.9 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Bridgewest Finance LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Bridgewest Finance LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bridgewest ranks #24,026 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#24,026
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.8/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24026 · US Corporation #24,026 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,026/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bowling Green State…
CPC-NARROW H04W · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bowling Green State University (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Bridgewest’s 29.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 8.6 pts (29%) Velocity 1.7 pts (6%) Breadth 10.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Bridgewest Finance · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Bridgewest's Innovation Score is 29.8/100 (32nd percentile of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Bridgewest?

Each dot is one of Bridgewest’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Bridgewest’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Bridgewest vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Bridgewest's grants concentrate

Bridgewest Finance LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Bridgewest sits between Bowling Green State University and Broder Bros., Co..

Bridgewest's three-year grant acceleration

Bridgewest Finance LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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Broder Bros

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Bridgewest Finance ◀

11

What this shows Bridgewest holds 11 patents at rank #24,031, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bridgewest

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,031 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Bridgewest's primary technology class.

Bridgewest's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bridgewest Finance LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	6	54.5%
2019	4	36.4%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Bridgewest Finance LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

H04B - Transmission 8

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Bridgewest Finance LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bridgewest Finance LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #24,026 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bridgewest Finance LLC against Bowling Green State University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.